Godzilla vs. Biollante (ゴジラVSビオランテ Gojira tai Biorante?) is a 1989 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho. Directed and written by Kazuki Ōmori, with special effects by Koichi Kawakita, the film starred Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima, and Megumi Odaka. The seventeenth film in the Godzilla series, the film is a belated sequel to The Return of Godzilla from 5 years earlier. This was the first "monster vs monster" film from this rebooted series. It featured a new monster called Biollante, with producer Tomoyuki Tanaka desiring new monster opponents for Godzilla rather than using characters from the original films. As part of pre-release publicity, Tanaka solicited script ideas from the public with 5,000 entries being received. The winning entry that was selected was from Shinichiro Kobayashi, a dentist and occasional science fiction writer. Director Ōmori then adapted it into the film's script.